{Theory} ATL Prism Gems [POSSIBLE SPOILERS]

So I encountered a "new" type of Gem in the Steven Universe mobile game. It's not exactly new, as Attack The Light has been out for a while, BUT, it's not widely discussed. According to Ian JQ, the game is technically canon to the 2nd season.

In ATL, the Crystal Gems accidentally let loose beings from a previous time in Gem history. They are known as Prism Warriors beings. About halfway through the game, they come across a memorial in an ancient temple, describing a Gem war where they used these Prism Warriors to do battle for them. Steven asked if they were Gems like them, and Garnet simply replied with a yes.

HOWEVER, they were only called Gems once, as throughout the rest of the game, they are called Prism warriors, made from light. A prism is "a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that refract light. At least two of the flat surfaces must have an angle between them. The exact angles between the surfaces depend on the application." When you do battle with the Prism Warriors, there are five varying colors of Warriors, with each color presenting new forms of beings.

Now, as we know, Gems are simply that, gems with sentience, bending light to make physical forms. Did they perhaps take ideas from their own physiology to create the Prism Warriors? Were they made like Gems? I'm dying to know more about them, though it's not looking to be so.Has anyone else played this, or have some theories about these Prism Warriors?

You know, I'm not sure if we will get any more information on these beings or if they'll ever be in the show... perhaps they will? I'm not even sure what to make of them. Based on what we currently know, they don't really fit into the story o.o unless they're just above the cusp of corruption. The other idea that comes to mind would be gem shards, but if that were the case, they'd call these warriors gem shards.

Well, interestingly enough, you can find a lot of the notes they sent to the games devs, and in them it's repeated that the Prism monsters are not corrupted Gems. I'm pretty sure that's just a result of the whole Prism itself breaking apart, thanks to Garnet's stupendous punch (this was basically all her fault). I'm still with the idea that Homeworld developed them, or discovered them and found a way to *mostly* keep them under control.

Well if theyre all colored then that suggested that they are the product of bending light through the prism rather than the prism itself. Cuz when you put like through a prism there are times when it produces a rainbow.

That being said, maybe the prism warriors are grunts for the actual prism that made them? Like there's a big brain behind the whole prism warriors operation? That'd be cool